Re: Cannot shut down remote WinXP Home machine

onedrum wrote:
So I would like to have the ability to remotely shut down one of the
computers on my home network. This is a Windows XP Home machine,
though, and I'm not sure if that's possible without XP Pro. As it
is, when I run 'shutdown -s -m \\machinename -t 0' from my XP Pro
machine, I get the error 'The network path was not found.' I can
easily access shared folders on this machine as well as ping it
through the command prompt. Remote assistance is enabled, and no
firewalls are enabled(I have a hardware firewall). The XP Home
machine also shows up when I run 'net view' from the command
prompt, but for some reason it still won't let me shut it down...
Am I just missing something?

Tried doing it by the IP?

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